GENZ VIP

Overview

Key Features

• Supports GENZ Core specification 1.0 and 1.1.
• Supports GENZ Physical layer specification 1.0 and 1.1.
• Supports GENZ Fabric Management specification 1.0.
• Supports Byte-addressable memory access.
• Supports Block and Object storage access.
• Supports I/O device access.
• Supports all types of Messaging.
• Supports Accelerators access.
• Supports memory semantic communications using a packet-based transport to exchange operations that access a component’s resources.
• Supports non-memory applications including I/O, storage and message passing communications.
• Supports aggressive packet retransmission policies.
• Supports abstract physical layer interface enabling support of multiple physical layer implementations and media that can be tailored to solution-specific needs.
• Supports Ethernet physical layer as per IEEE 802.3-2015 specification.
• Supports PAM4-50G Fabric and PAM4-50G Local.
• Supports PCIe physical layer as per PCI Express Base specification 4.0 and 5.0.
• Supports Solution-driven packaging and Point-to-point topology.
• Supports real-time dynamic physical signaling rate, interface width and link width adjustment to meet workload or environmental conditions.
• Supports Advanced requests, e.g. atomics, buffer movement, pattern matching, etc. as well as transparent support for vendor-defined operations.
• Supports following CRCs based packet data integrity combined with transparent end-to-end packet error recovery.
  • PCRC
  • ECRC.
• Supports Flit encoding.
• Supports up to 32 virtual channels for each interface.
• Supports transparent transient error recovery and in-order packet delivery across a link through Link-Level Reliability (LLR).
• Supports Strong Ordering Domain Communications (SOD).
• Supports Vendor-defined Operations.
• Supports reliable Delivery and Error Handling.
• Supports Sequential Execution and Unordered Execution.
• Supports Physical Layer Abstraction.
• Supports end-to-end Multicast and Unicast communication.
• Supports Flow control.
• Supports Congestion and Deadline.
• Supports Address Translation.
• Supports Logical PCIe device.
• Supports Data striping.
• Supports Packet Alignment.
• Supports Symmetric and Asymmetric interfaces and links.
• Supports Memory Media RAS.
• Supports all Opclasses and Packet types.
• Supports Sanitize and Erase (SE).
• Supports Enqueue and Dequeue functionality.
• Supports high level security through following
  • Anti-Replay Tag (ART)
  • HMAC Code Calculation
  • Interface Access Key
  • Page R-Key
  • Authentication Encryption (AEAD).
• Supports API structure for proposed interface.
• Supports general view of fabric’s management stack.
• Configurable timers and timeouts.
• Automated Error Injections at all layers.
• Supports RAR ACK and Proxy dependency.
• Checkers verify protocol timing checks and functional accuracy at each layer.
• Notifies the testbench of significant events such as transactions, warnings, timing and protocol violations.
• GENZ Verification IP comes with complete test suite to test every feature of GENZ specification.
• Functional coverage for complete GENZ features.
• Callbacks in BFM’s and Monitor for various events.

Benefits

• Faster testbench development and more complete verification of GENZ designs.
• Easy to use command interface simplifies testbench control and configuration of Host,Device and monitor.
• Simplifies results analysis.
• Integrates easily into OpenVera, SytemVerilog, SystemC, Verilog.
• Runs in every major simulation environment.

Block Diagram

Deliverables

• Complete regression suite containing all the GENZ testcases.
• Examples showing how to connect various components, and usage of BFM and Monitor.
• Detailed documentation of all class, task and function's used in verification env.
• Documentation also contains User's Guide and Release notes.

Technical Specifications